Pharma and biotech giant Roche’s Claudine Nick outlined the internal and external complexities of localizing for this highly regulated industry and highlighted the value-add of having an internal language services team. Continue reading
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In November 2018, three EU tenders were issued relating to translation. Two tenders call for 225 contractors for translation into multiple languages and the third tender, worth EUR 225,000, requires translation support for an EU-funded contract in Azerbaijan. Continue reading
Language technology startup Lilt has introduced a new “human-in-the-loop” model, providing language services to their end-customers, but still rejects the LSP label. Continue reading
Swiss Parliament elects former conference interpreter Karin Keller-Sutter as one the country’s seven Federal Councillors. Keller-Sutter’s language proficiency seen as one of her key advantages over rival candidates. Continue reading
SlatorCon Zurich 2018 featured language industry experts from big tech, life sciences, language services, private equity and investment banking, hosting speakers from Google, Roche, Ubiqus, LanguageWire and Raymond James, as well as Slator’s own Florian Faes. Continue reading
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Through five case studies and nearly 30 commentaries from the buy (enterprise, government, and more)- and sell-side (LSPs), this report shines a light on the sentiment of industry practitioners towards current-state NMT technology. Continue reading
Shopify’s Content and Localization Manager, Giulia Greco, shares how the multi-channel ecommerce company will have localized six million words by the time 2018 ends, and why translation was the easy part. Continue reading
The Slator Language Industry Job Index (LIJI), launched in July 2018 to track how employment activity is trending across the global language industry, reached a new high of 104.02 in December 2018 vs 100.85 the previous month. Continue reading
thebigword posts full-year 2018 revenues of nearly USD 100m and EBITDA of USD 5.9m, as growth is boosted by Ministry of Justice contract and defense business. Company launches new video remote interpreting (VRI) capabilities to expand interpretation offering. Continue reading
Aglatech14 welcomes a new Interim COO, Global Lingo and Metafraze each appoint new Directors for Business Development, ONCALL hires a new Operations Manager for its Translation department, and CyraCom gets a new CFO. Continue reading
After October IPO in Australia Straker Translations posts half-year results. Six months pro-forma revenues grew to USD 9.1m and adjusted EBITDA shows a slight profit. Company says their freelance English to French freelancers average 1,000 words per hour and earn USD 28 per hour. Continue reading
A lot of Slator’s readers think Europe is lagging behind the US and China in language tech, translation productivity tools are widely seen as over-engineered, M&A-driven consolidation is a net negative, and MT should stay off national security’s radar. Continue reading
The demand for high quality language data to train machine learning systems including neural machine translation is fuelling a growth curve for providers Appen, Flitto, and others. Continue reading
Private equity firm AUCTUS Capital backs merger of Ü-Werk, WOK, and Enssner into holding company T-Works. Group employs nearly 200 full-time staff and plans further selective acquisitions. Continue reading
Acquisition of boutique technical language service provider Birotech by Belgian rival Déesse highlights the challenges owners face in selling their language service provider when they reach retirement age. Continue reading
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